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Gladys
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Your drag & drop assistant

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Description

Gladys is a drag-and-drop shelf that holds things you want to set aside, such as links, text snippets, map locations, contacts, images, photos, emails, messages and much more (even if the application that the information came from is removed)

It works with any app that supports drag-and-drop, and lets you concentrate on whatever it is you are setting aside, without having to think where it needs to be dropped, or having to constantly switch between apps.

• Works with any app that supports drag-and-drop, but also provides an extension for apps that don't yet support it, as well as the ability to paste items to & from the clipboard.• Quickly search for items inside the app or via Spotlight. Access your top items from the home screen / Today widget, your Apple Watch, and even iMessage.• Annotate items with notes, custom titles, and tag items with labels that allow you to easily categorise, browse, and sort your collection.• Take your collection with you on your iPhone, and keep it updated by turning on automatic iCloud syncing.• Import/export/merge collection archives simply by dragging.• Ideal for bookmarking between apps: For example you can quickly return to dropped email items by selecting 'Open' in their info view, or quickly share links between different browsers.• Experienced users can get details on every item and extract specific components (e.g. extract the URL of an image link, instead of the whole item).• Power users can use Gladys' Files extension to view/edit items in-place from other apps, as well as exporting all items in a ZIP file for sharing.• Technical users can inspect binary data using the in-built hex viewer.• Contains no analytics, ratings prompts, or noise.

Gladys is free for casual use (up to 10 simultaneous items). Power users with larger libraries can expand Gladys to hold unlimited items with a 99 cent in-app-purchase.

What's New

Version History

1.1.9

Feb 12, 2018

• Swipe right on data components to copy those components specifically to the clipboard.• Open the info view of an item on another device via handoff.• More consistent titling/note display logic and placement.• Improved: Gladys will not prioritise local "file://" URLs the same way it prioritises web URLs, preferring other local data types over them instead when opening or sharing whole items.• Fixed: Gladys will not "stick" to the original suggested name of an item when dropped into another app if that item's title was changed in the meantime.

1.1.8

Jan 9, 2018

Note: Please run Gladys once after upgrading, in order to complete the update, before using the action or Files extension.What's New:• Ability to edit, add, or remove labels of many items at once from Edit Mode.• iMessage extension to help directly drop items such as links, images, and PDFs directly from iMessage, although drag & drop still works best.• Selecting the download option on web links to files will now download those files as data components instead of making a .webarchive of them.• Ability to re-order data components inside items, to prioritise certain components for apps that base their drop behaviour on item precedence.• Search now treats each word as a term (e.g. typing ‘Paris food’ will now search for items matching both ‘Paris’ and ‘food’, instead of items containing the phrase ‘Paris food’). To search for a phrase, use quotes (e.g. “Paris food”).• Option to display an overlay during a drag that can temporarily switch dropping behaviour (i.e. removing vs. keeping items after a drop)• Low-level Universal Type Identifiers (like "com.adobe.pdf") are now hidden by default in data components, in favour of their verbose description (e.g. "PDF Document"). Tapping on any data component will switch between the two display modes.• Improved sync feedback in cases where iCloud access is temporarily paused because of traffic overload.• Some tweaks to further minimise occasions where the file provider extension stops updating.• Fixed: Sharing an exported Gladys item from Files.app will now have a correct filename and extension, if the type can be inferred.• Fixed: Order of in-item data components could get mixed up in certain occasions across devices. Gladys now enforces the correct ordering.

As stated in the app description, Gladys does not spy, analyse, track, or share anything with anyone. A more verbose version of this policy is now also available here: http://www.bru.build/apps/gladys/privacy

1.1.7

Dec 4, 2017

• Option to snapshot HTML data components of items as web archives for offline preview• Ability to swipe-to-delete data components of items (e.g. unneeded image formats or HTML snapshots)• Option to export (and/or ZIP) only items which are currently being filtered by search/labels• Better detection of PDF file titles• The options panel will remember the last tab selected and will not always open it at the import/export pane• Improved detection of incoming ZIPed data components from apps even when they are not explicitly identified• Fixed: System smart invert will no longer also invert preview thumbnails in the main view• Fixed: If an item's thumbnail is updated on the device or iCloud, its corresponding thumbnail will also update on Apple Watch• Fixed: When moving (versus copying) multiple items out of Gladys in one drop, all moved items will now be removed• Fixed: Title and preview icon of links pointing at sites with old non-UTF8 compatible encodings• Fixed: iCloud sync could end up in a sync loop in certain cases where a downloaded item had no data components• Fixed: Info view could lose its position after repeated external data updates• Fixed: Icon on exported archives

1.1.6

Nov 20, 2017

• New option to expose notes added to items in the main view.• URL scheme extended with new options to specify custom title, note, and labels. Example: "gladys://paste-clipboard?title=Title%20For%20Item&note=Some%20Note%20Text&labels=label1,label2,label3 (all parameters are optional)• Fixes to title and note editing: Reduced "jumpy" scrolling that could occur when editing unusually long titles or notes in the info view. Improved cursor tracking and editing on iPhone.• Less iCloud sync traffic on deletions, additions, and position changes. Significantly fewer occasions where you will see a "blink" shortly after performing a synced action. This also means sync is faster and uses less bandwidth.

From 1.1.5 and 1.1.4:

• Now includes a simple Apple Watch app to allow browsing items, an option to copy an item to the clipboard, open its info view on your iPhone, or pin its title as a text complication.• The Today View widget can now be expanded to show more items.• You can now open Gladys from another app to paste the clipboard using a URL scheme, for instance: "gladys://paste-clipboard?label=New%20Item". The label parameter is optional.• New option to skip auto-labelling for items that are added while labels are active.• New option to remove items after they have been dragged out of Gladys.• When adding items while a search or label is active, implying that the item would stay hidden after being added, a message appears to confirm the addition occurred.• Corrected a crash that could occur when adding items while a search was already active but no items were visible.• Corrected a case where search results would not reset after selecting "cancel" from the search bar.• Robustness improvements to item storage and sync.• Improves ordering of inserted items that are dropped into Gladys while filtering is active.• Corrects a rare case where using the share extension immediately after cancelling a previous share action could result in data loss.• Corrects a crash that could result from displaying the in-app-purchase dialog while filtering is active.

1.1.5

Nov 20, 2017

• Now includes a simple Apple Watch app to allow browsing items, an option to copy an item to the clipboard, open its info view on your iPhone, or pin its title as a text complication.• The Today View widget can now be expanded to show more items.• You can now open Gladys from another app to paste the clipboard using a URL scheme, for instance: "gladys://paste-clipboard?label=New%20Item". The label parameter is optional.• New option to skip auto-labelling for items that are added while labels are active.• New option to remove items after they have been dragged out of Gladys.• When adding items while a search or label is active, implying that the item would stay hidden after being added, a message appears to confirm the addition occurred.• Corrected a crash that could occur when adding items while a search was already active but no items were visible.• Corrected a case where search results would not reset after selecting "cancel" from the search bar.• Robustness improvements to item storage and sync.

Version 1.1.5 includes some additional UI and stability improvements:• Improves ordering of inserted items that are dropped into Gladys while filtering is active.• Corrects a rare case where using the share extension immediately after cancelling a previous share action could result in data loss.• Corrects a crash that could result from displaying the in-app-purchase dialog while filtering is active.

1.1.4

Nov 19, 2017

• Now includes a simple Apple Watch app to allow browsing items, an option to copy an item to the clipboard, open its info view on your iPhone, or pin its title as a text complication.• The Today View widget can now be expanded to show more items.• You can now open Gladys from another app to paste the clipboard using a URL scheme, for instance: "gladys://paste-clipboard?label=New%20Item". The label parameter is optional.• New option to skip auto-labelling for items that are added while labels are active.• New option to remove items after they have been dragged out of Gladys.• When adding items while a search or label is active, implying that the item would stay hidden after being added, a message appears to confirm the addition occurred.

Stability improvements:• Corrected a crash that could occur when adding items while a search was already active but no items were visible.• Corrected a case where search results would not reset after selecting "cancel" from the search bar.• Robustness improvements to item storage and sync.

1.1.3

Nov 13, 2017

- Added a home screen widget to provide handy access to the top-most items in your collection from the Today view, or the home screen shortcut menu. Tap on an item to copy it to the clipboard.- Added thumbnail previews for newly imported PDF and movie files.- Share extension will appear on many more types of items that can be imported, such as PDFs currently open in Safari, while an option to immediately sync to iCloud from the extension has been added.

Various UI improvements:

- Popups and info panels will no longer dismiss when changing display size or rotating, but will correctly transition to their new display mode.- Improvements and fixes to iPhone landscape mode, and more noticeable haptic feedback when opening the shortcut menu via 3D Touch.- Corrections to error displays in web previews.- Workarounds for some OS bugs that could cause iCloud updates to stop being delivered when Gladys is in the foreground.- Fewer un-needed UI refreshes when searching/filtering/labelling or first launching the app.- Re-ordering of the main view is slowed down very slightly to make targeting the correct spot easier and prevent back-and-forth "dancing" of elements.

Stability:- When importing items over the share extension and then dragging to another app, in some cases the items could remain untitled. This has been corrected.- Corrected a crash that could occur when trying to view the data for an item with zero length. Also added safeguards so that the hex viewer will never appear too "squished" on items with very little data.- Action extension now reads iCloud sync preference correctly and uploads items if needed, displaying upload percentage feedback.- Corrected a cacheing issue that could cause re-imported or re-downloaded data to display a corrupted icon unless the app got restarted.- Opening the info panel and initial importing is faster on large items.

1.1.2

Nov 6, 2017

Many thanks to everyone who has reached out with ideas, suggestions, and bug reports - Please keep them coming. This release improves some interface elements, app interoperability, and corrects some bugs.

Interface improvements:

• Shortcut menu is now also accessible on iPad and devices without 3D Touch: Tap an item with two fingers to access it.• New option to Quick Look an item in the shortcut menu (or by pinching an item). Gladys will show the first preview-able component of an item.• Links to local files will no longer be named after their entire original path by default, but will adopt the name of the target file instead.• Importing text items with NULL characters will no longer truncate an item's search-ability or provide corrupted data when dragged back out.• New option to use two-column mode instead of single-column mode for narrow display layouts.• 3D Touch shortcuts on home screen icon to paste from clipboard, or to immediately jump to search.• Improved feedback text on iCloud sync.

Interoperability improvements:

• New option to split items with multiple data types during import, creating one item for each data type.• Some apps export text & links via the action extension claiming that it is plan text, but it is in fact is a data object. This means object data gets stored & exported in place of the text, resulting in gibberish when trying to preview it. Gladys will now "unwrap" such data to the format that the original app claimed it was.• Some apps (for example the iOS screenshot app) will export raw image raster data only via the share extension. If Gladys detects this it will encode an extra JPEG data item internally, so the parent item can now be dragged into apps where only file-encoded image data makes sense in context (such as creating an image file Files.app, for example.) The original high-fidelity data remains available to apps that can consume it.• To save battery and bandwidth, iCloud sync will not re-check for updates if the app is repeatedly foregrounded in a short amount of time. You can override this by using pull-to-refresh.• Gladys will try a file representation fetch if the original data fetch fails, in case an app offers the former but not the latter.

Bug-fixes:

• Corrected an issue where the action extension and the app would be active at the same time and conflict when a new item was synced to iCloud.• Import/export panel will not auto-hide when dragging a ZIP file from it in some cases (which would cancel the export)• Editing an image in the Files extension will now reflect changes on its preview icon after it is saved.• Map item tiles will now regenerate their contents correctly after a low-memory warning.• Gladys will request permission to write to Photos when trying to save images in the sharing panel.• Correct icon is displayed for video data.

1.1.1

Oct 31, 2017

• Added simple 3D Touch shortcuts for items on iPhone.• Improved sync feedback and safeguarding your data if you switch accounts or log out of iCloud.• Corrected an issue with label syncing.• Improved performance when importing or syncing down large numbers of items at once.

From Version 1.1.0:

• iPhone support - take Gladys with you in your pocket!• iCloud sync option to keep items synced between devices. Optionally restrict sync to WiFi.• VoiceOver improvements: Long-running imports of items are now reported, as well as the number of search results.• Ability to preview web links or items supported by Quick Look from the info view.• Search will now also look for labels.• Various fixes to item importing.

1.1.0

Oct 30, 2017

• iPhone support - take Gladys with you in your pocket!• iCloud sync option to keep items synced between devices. Optionally restrict sync to WiFi.• VoiceOver improvements: Long-running imports of items are now reported, as well as the number of search results.• Ability to preview web links or items supported by Quick Look from the info view.• Search will now also look for labels.• Various fixes to item importing.

1.0.6

Oct 21, 2017

• Significant improvements to Voiceover and accessible Drag & Drop support. Improving accessibility in Gladys will be a continuous process, so please feel free to contact me with suggestions on improving it even further.• Improvements on supporting Dynamic Type throughout the interface.• Minor bug fixes and cleanups.

1.0.5

Oct 17, 2017

• Categorise, view, and sort items easily using the new labels feature.• New buttons to directly paste items to & from the clipboard.• Cleaner directory structure in Files integration and ZIP exports.• Visual progress indicators when importing items, especially useful when importing items with many data types.• Nicer icons for video, audio, and image items without previews.• Improved sync, tag, and favouriting functionality between Gladys and the File provider extension.

1.0.4

Oct 12, 2017

- Added the ability to export ZIP archives containing all the items in the collection as files.- When merging archives, a newer copy of an item (if it exists) will overwrite an older version, making syncing between libraries easier.- Exposed / exported filenames will now include extensions appropriate to their type (like .txt, .jpeg, or .png)- Improved item descriptions to cover more data types.- Ability to jump to a specific address in the hex viewer.- Many small improvements, fixes and optimisations to item importing, refreshing, file handling, and further improvements to popup sizing.

1.0.3

Oct 9, 2017

- Titles in items are now editable by tapping on them in the detail view.- Notes in items are now indexed and searchable.- Peek into binary data with the new lightweight hex/ascii viewer.- Nicer "About" view with added contact info for issues and suggestions.- Corrected various user interface glitches, especially interactions with popups during searches, and dynamic sizing.- Slightly nicer rounded corners on dragged items.- Corrected some typos and text.

1.0.2

Sep 26, 2017

• You can now add notes to individual items from their info view.• Improved item info display with human-readable labels and cleaner layout.• Gladys will now confirm before deleting any items.• If exported items (in Files) are edited, Gladys will now update its local preview and details.• Gladys will no longer keep its info view open for items that were externally deleted.• Minor improvements to the import logic of local file links, and general interface improvements.

1.0.1

Sep 22, 2017

Expect regular updates to Gladys which improve interoperability with as many apps and types of data as possible.In this update, file folders dragged from apps such as Files can now be dragged back out as ZIP files instead of unusable data blocks.

1.0

Sep 19, 2017

Feb 12, 2018

Version 1.1.9

• Swipe right on data components to copy those components specifically to the clipboard.• Open the info view of an item on another device via handoff.• More consistent titling/note display logic and placement.• Improved: Gladys will not prioritise local "file://" URLs the same way it prioritises web URLs, preferring other local data types over them instead when opening or sharing whole items.• Fixed: Gladys will not "stick" to the original suggested name of an item when dropped into another app if that item's title was changed in the meantime.

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5

52 Ratings

52 Ratings

Highly Useful

Feb 13, 2018

kgbizy

Quick and easy way to manage the clipboard...works fast and recognizes URLs as a separate link...love the labeling for organization...I use this app to quickly capture things to review or read later in the day...it’s a life saver... Gladys has permanently been on my HomeScreen for the last few months now...the shortcut on the share menu I just cannot live without it...I suggest adding a dark color scheme for night time use...Thank you for creating this very useful app!

Highly Useful

Feb 13, 2018

kgbizy

Quick and easy way to manage the clipboard...works fast and recognizes URLs as a separate link...love the labeling for organization...I use this app to quickly capture things to review or read later in the day...it’s a life saver... Gladys has permanently been on my HomeScreen for the last few months now...the shortcut on the share menu I just cannot live without it...I suggest adding a dark color scheme for night time use...Thank you for creating this very useful app!

Love Gladys!

Nov 24, 2017

BAR112

Other than the odd app name and icon, it works great for iOS 11 drag and drop on my iPads. There are 3 ways to get the data (text, photos, gifs, etc.) in: drag and drop, Share/“Keep in Gladys”, and copy/paste). It’s easy to pull out a clip, drag and drop it; the original will stay right there in case you need to use it again. Just started with the app but already can tell it’s going to increase my productivity. And what a bargain, price-wise! Highly recommend Gladys!

Love Gladys!

Nov 24, 2017

BAR112

Other than the odd app name and icon, it works great for iOS 11 drag and drop on my iPads. There are 3 ways to get the data (text, photos, gifs, etc.) in: drag and drop, Share/“Keep in Gladys”, and copy/paste). It’s easy to pull out a clip, drag and drop it; the original will stay right there in case you need to use it again. Just started with the app but already can tell it’s going to increase my productivity. And what a bargain, price-wise! Highly recommend Gladys!

An Essential Productivity App

Nov 10, 2017

reedrobertson

After less than a week of use, Gladys is already one of my *all-time favorite* iOS productivity apps. The app is deceptively simple; the potential use cases in the era of iOS drag-and-drop are immeasurable. On my iPad, the functionality of Gladys already “feels” like a “natural extension” of iOS multitasking. IMHO, Apple should acquire this app.

An Essential Productivity App

Nov 10, 2017

reedrobertson

After less than a week of use, Gladys is already one of my *all-time favorite* iOS productivity apps. The app is deceptively simple; the potential use cases in the era of iOS drag-and-drop are immeasurable. On my iPad, the functionality of Gladys already “feels” like a “natural extension” of iOS multitasking. IMHO, Apple should acquire this app.